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Article #2384Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
From: Christopher Robato
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 13:14
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 13:14
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d$qlm@feenix.metronet.com> <Summers-2809951742560001@ethyl-the-frog.arc.nasa.gov> Distribution: David P. Summers (Summers@Ethyl-the-Frog.arc.nasa.gov) wrote: : In article <44abjd$qlm@feenix.metronet.com>, dcorn@metronet.com (David : Corn) wrote: : > The difference is usability. Excel is easier to use, and so people : > will move to the new standard, like it or not. : I haven't found Excel easier to use, except to the degree that I've : trained myself to use it. : > MS has routinely apologized for the speed of the new Word (Excel isn't : > that bad, just memory-hungry). : So getting a different spreadsheet saves you money on memory upgrades. : A different wordprocessor saves you cpu upgrade. : > >The OS runs it just fine. The problem is that the software is bloated : > >and slow. Heck, as far as I'm concerned even going from Excel 5 : > >to Excel 4 is an upgrade. : > What do you do when you have 3000 PC users with the latest and : > greatest Excel (which, amazingly, runs well, even on an old 486/50) : > and 800 Mac users, with the old version?] : This has nothing to do with the OS. People are not switching to new : versions of Word and Excel because they don't like them. I routinely : got the new version of Excel (I don't use Word) until the latest monster : came out. : > The Mac users are forced to upgrade - that's what happens. : Acutally I don't know they are forced to upgrade. We have a mix of : old and new versions here and things go just fine, you just make : saving in the old format the standard for mailing docs. : However, even it was true, it would only say the best tatic was not to : get on the MS force upgrade merry-go-round in the first place (regardless : of platform). : ________________________ : (Disclaimer: If NASA had any position on any of this do you : think they would have ME give it?) : David Summers - Summers@Ethyl-the-Frog.ARC.NASA.Gov I would second that. I have not upgraded my Windows Word since 2.0, and my Excel since v4. On my Mac, on the other hand, it's Microsoft free. Many of the Mac users, disappointed with the performance and the nature of Word 6, are returning to Word 5.1 or shifting to another brand like WordPerfect or Nisus. Rgds, Chris -- Rei Hino/Sailor Mars; Ami Mizuno/Sailor Mercury; Minako Aino/Sailor Venus Makoto Kino/Sailor Jupiter; Haruka Tenoh/Sailor Uranus; Michiru Kaioh/Sailor Neptune; Setsuna Meioh/Sailor Pluto; Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon Otaeru Tomoe/Sailor Saturn; Chibiusagi Tsukino/Sailor Chibimoon *****crobato@kuentos.guam.net*****
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!saba.kuentos.guam.net!crobato From: crobato@saba.kuentos.guam.net (Christopher Robato) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,alt.destroy.microsoft Subject: Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!! Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,alt.destroy.microsoft Date: 29 Sep 1995 13:14:40 GMT Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. Message-ID: <44grg0$2bs@news1.halcyon.com> References: <Summers-1509951528200001@ethyl-the-frog.arc.nasa.gov> <43d58e$2n5@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> <Summers-1609951252450001@arclan-ara-gw-5.arc.nasa.gov> <43ff6r$cfg@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> <Summers-1609951802120001@arclan-ara-gw-2.arc.nasa.gov> <43g61s$4l NNTP-Posting-Host: saba.kuentos.guam.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]